On May 2, 2004, the Metropolitan Police Department implements a major restructuring of its Police Service Areas (PSAs), a basic building block of community policing in the District of Columbia. The goal of the restructuring is to ensure better police services for DC neighborhoods by providing greater flexibility in neighborhood patrols and by aligning PSAs more closely with natural neighborhood boundaries. The restructuring plan reduces the number of PSAs from 83 to 45, thus creating new boundaries for all of the PSAs, as well as new boundaries for some police districts. The plan was developed following extensive public discussion and a 60-day review by the DC Council.

Read the Frequently Asked Questions on the new PSA boundaries.

Each PSA will have a minimum of 21 officers (with the exception of PSA 707, which is primarily Bolling Air Force Base, and therefore needs fewer MPDC officers). PSAs with more crime are being assigned more officers, in some cases three or four times the minimum staffing. Get a complete listing* of the anticipated staffing levels for the new PSAs.

Find Your Police District and PSA
Every resident lives in a PSA, and every PSA has a team of police officers and officials assigned to it. Residents should get to know their PSA team members and learn how to work with them to fight crime and disorder in their neighborhoods.

Residents may now easily locate their PSAs and the resources within their communities by visiting DC Guide. Simply enter an address (don't use punctuation marks like commas or periods), select "Make Report," and scroll down the page to "Public Safety Service Areas." To get additional information about resources in that particular PSA, select the PSA link. Printable PDF versions of each district map are available through district page links below.

• First District
• Second District
• Third District
• Fourth District
• Fifth District
• Sixth District
• Seventh District

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